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johnson in 1963. james in brandon, florida on our republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i wanted to ask the country to pray for our president obama -- i am a republican, and i voted republican this year. that was to my commitment to the republican party. i am very disappointed with my party. i do not like the direction they are taking. to be honest with you, i do not like the fact that they are not cooperating in the house or any other place with democrats or with president obama. i would ask the president if he would open upper a new investigation on the 9/11 attacks on this country. i am unsatisfied with the commission report that was put out. host: that was james in brandon, florida. you can see on the capital, five large flags hanging down. the explanation of the five different flags they had hanging down -- this is a congressional report. framed against the black -- the backdrop -- the backdrop of red, white and blue -- we have at ross flag with starch -- stars are arranged in the circle. the next two flags are the
johnson in 1963. james in brandon, florida on our republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i wanted to ask the country to pray for our president obama -- i am a republican, and i voted republican this year. that was to my commitment to the republican party. i am very disappointed with my party. i do not like the direction they are taking. to be honest with you, i do not like the fact that they are not cooperating in the house or any other place with...
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one of the things that lyndon johnson said famously is that when a president is elected, he's for six months he's a giraffe and thereafter a worm, so his great challenge is going to be how he figures out how to make the most of this time as a giraffe. >> let's go back outside to so sole ya vega. >> i'm here. hey, good afternoon. we made our way over from the pentagon where we were at the staging area and came over on a bus full of teenager matching band from tennessee. they were really excited and we walked our way through the mall here and made our way close to the capitol. you can see a lot of the crowd is dissipating. a lot are headed over to that paid we'll see later this afternoon. we heard all of our friends, david muir and bill weir talking about the excitement and the level of excitement you can feel just walking through this crowd. it's so palpable. one woman i just met while making my way over stopped me in my tracks during the invocation, she literally had tears streaming down her face and i said why are you so emotional? she said my grandfather could not vote. she says my
one of the things that lyndon johnson said famously is that when a president is elected, he's for six months he's a giraffe and thereafter a worm, so his great challenge is going to be how he figures out how to make the most of this time as a giraffe. >> let's go back outside to so sole ya vega. >> i'm here. hey, good afternoon. we made our way over from the pentagon where we were at the staging area and came over on a bus full of teenager matching band from tennessee. they were...
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watching the inaugustral procession, the first president to actually ride in a bulletproof car was lyndon johnson in 1965, michael shure. the first president to ride in a car at all, excuse me, david shuster, are you there? the first president to ride in a ceremony in a car was warren harding back in 1921. so shuster, can you see from where you are. you've got a unique spot looking back at the capitol. can you see any of that happening? >> yeah, we can see over to constitution avenue. can see the crowds blocked off. we can see the monitor. what i wanted to say about the motorcade is a couple of things. first of all, in order to prepare pennsylvania avenue for this path, they removed something like 25 different stoplights that were on poles and the other thing that they do as part of security is early this morning, the electric company and gas company will go manhole cover by manhole cover, prop them open, make sure nothing is underneath and put a little x of spray paint and we would it shut. they know that pennsylvania avenue has been cleared. so it is a fascinating process to get pennsylvania re
watching the inaugustral procession, the first president to actually ride in a bulletproof car was lyndon johnson in 1965, michael shure. the first president to ride in a car at all, excuse me, david shuster, are you there? the first president to ride in a ceremony in a car was warren harding back in 1921. so shuster, can you see from where you are. you've got a unique spot looking back at the capitol. can you see any of that happening? >> yeah, we can see over to constitution avenue. can...
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when lyndon johnson, joe calipano pointed out on "face the nation" he was one of the key aides for johnson when he passed the civil rights bill. when they signed that '64 civil rights bill, martin luther king was pivotal in doing that. you had all the members of congress, you know what johnson gave the first pen to? to everett dirkson the republican leader in the senate. because he said, he couldn't have done it without him. and he wanted to make sure that dirkson got full credit for that. you don't see that much any more. and that's the kind of thing that we've got to find just a little of that now if we are going to get anything done. starting off these people got to find out about each other and who they are and get to know one another again. because right now they really don't. they don't like to go to the same parties, they don't like to be seen with people from the other party, for fear that they will get in trouble with the folks back home. unless they can get past that, it's going to be very difficult to get anything done. >> maybe lunch will be a start. there will be a lot of new
when lyndon johnson, joe calipano pointed out on "face the nation" he was one of the key aides for johnson when he passed the civil rights bill. when they signed that '64 civil rights bill, martin luther king was pivotal in doing that. you had all the members of congress, you know what johnson gave the first pen to? to everett dirkson the republican leader in the senate. because he said, he couldn't have done it without him. and he wanted to make sure that dirkson got full credit for...
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lyndon johnson -- >> the first years of the bulletproof limousine was for president johnson. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> as the president makes his way to the limousine, the honor today falls to general michael whennington of the u.s. army who with the military district of washington gets to be his escort this part of the way. michael beschloss, that's about as heavy on military tradition as we get for this event, but it's the only branch of the active duty service where they're allowed to and actually asked to wear wigs. >> that's exactly right. i don't think we'll see that in any others either, on any other occasions. wouldn't have it any other way given american history. doing it is another early bow to american history, because presidential inaugurations east front of the capitol until ronald reagan in 1981 and moved to the other side not by reagan but before he was a sure winner in 10 in 1980. >> all of the vehicles in the motorcade and henceforth in his presidency, they have these taxation without representation license plates. tell us about that. >> a strong debate gong on. really
lyndon johnson -- >> the first years of the bulletproof limousine was for president johnson. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> as the president makes his way to the limousine, the honor today falls to general michael whennington of the u.s. army who with the military district of washington gets to be his escort this part of the way. michael beschloss, that's about as heavy on military tradition as we get for this event, but it's the only branch of the active duty service where they're...
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colleagues to do legislation that would essentially repeal the amf, that would say this era of war is -- jay johnson, the general kuns counsel of the pentagon, gave a speech about thinking about ending that war. we think about iraq and afghanistan. the hot wars. boots on the grounds wars. the broader framework of war under which we labor through the amf i agree with you the odds are slim that we're going to see a repeal of that, an end to that, but i think it's a place for the conversation to go in the second term as the president headed towards withdrawal with afghanistan and the physical presence we have of u.s. soldiers. >> as we start to understand what an obama foreign policy is. i mean, you look back at the first inaugural just compared with the second inaugural address. the first inaugural address was about ending the era of bush and cheney. that's really what it was about. it was about we're going to do this in i different way. if you unclench your fist. it's a different time now. he has to figure out what he is going to do affirmatively, not in reaction to the way somebody else did it that
colleagues to do legislation that would essentially repeal the amf, that would say this era of war is -- jay johnson, the general kuns counsel of the pentagon, gave a speech about thinking about ending that war. we think about iraq and afghanistan. the hot wars. boots on the grounds wars. the broader framework of war under which we labor through the amf i agree with you the odds are slim that we're going to see a repeal of that, an end to that, but i think it's a place for the conversation to...
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. >> well, he's -- you know, compare him to bill clinton or lyndon johnson. that's true. >> anybody compared to bill clinton and lyndon johnson -- not going to change really in that sense. he is who he is. he doesn't want to appear to be inauthentic about it. one of the things about bill clinton was he was what i call an authentic phony. everybody believed what he was saying at the moment. barack obama always had more difficult time trying to act that up. but as he said the other day, you know, he is a nice enough guy. echoed what he said about hillary. nice enough, too. >> that line didn't go over so well the first time. >> he was talking about himself a little easier maybe. >> maybe. but do -- does he enjoy politics? >> yes. well, he enjoys politics but enjoys other things as well. you know, i -- i think that he -- he's learning how to really sort of merge that with the other aspects of what he enjoys which is policy and rest of life. >> can i say two words? joe biden. that's what joe biden is for. he does the things the president really dislikes doing. i m
. >> well, he's -- you know, compare him to bill clinton or lyndon johnson. that's true. >> anybody compared to bill clinton and lyndon johnson -- not going to change really in that sense. he is who he is. he doesn't want to appear to be inauthentic about it. one of the things about bill clinton was he was what i call an authentic phony. everybody believed what he was saying at the moment. barack obama always had more difficult time trying to act that up. but as he said the other...